Summary:

You play as a slick rat with many vices who skates for cheddar, you use that cheddar to pay child support every day and gamble as-well as purchase upgrades

Tony Hawks-esque skater to earn cheddar, gambling on the side to fill in the missing cheddar, feed baby mama, buy slick stuff!

The future of this game is envisioned to be a multiplayer (4 people) game where everyone has the same baby mama and competes to appease the crowd to earn enough cheddar to appease baby mama another day.

Controls:

Accelerate:   W     |      Brake:   S     |     Steer:    A  /  D

Jump:         Spacebar

Trick:          Spacebar Tap  /  Tap -> Tap  /  Tap -> Tap -> Tap  /  Hold -> Tap

Mono:        Hold Spacebar > 2s on ground while moving
                        (Use   W  /  S   to balance mono)

Grind:        Hold Spacebar > 0.6s in air near rail
                        (Use   A  /  D   to balance grind)

Boost:        Shift / Ctrl / Right Click
                       (While Grounded = Slick Cig speed boost)
                       (While Airborne = Slick Sips confidence boost - more air/trick time)

Interact:   E

Menu:        Esc

Functionality:

Day / Stage Cycle:          3 stages per day, 1 session in the sewer per stage

Sewer Skate Session:   60 seconds to make as much cheddar as possible

Baby Mama:                      Quota/Tax at the start of each day

Cool Canary:                     Shop

Slot Machine:                   Gamble to either make it big or go home poor

Credits:

Programming:

• Tristyn (Code Wizard) - https://blockeez.com/tristyn_mackay
• Sam - https://www.instagram.com/sammys_game_dev/
• Dan - https://www.instagram.com/snaprootgames/

Music and SFX:

• Daniel Baldwin - https://www.danielbaldwinmusic.com/

Art and 3D Assets:

• Spookto - https://spookto.itch.io/

Notes:

The ambition:

• We were definitely scraping the line with the mechanics/controls even up to the last day but the system was built to be highly extensible so new features are much easier to bring in.
  

Easy to pick up, Hard to master:

• Limiting it to movement control buttons, 1 boost button and 1 action button.
• You can even remap controls in the settings and we have plans to release for touch devices, all part of the extensibility we programmed around!

Never Enough Time:

• to include a lot of key details in tutorials like: how jumping and holding the jump while in air (for longer than 0.6s) while near a grindable object (rail etc.) would lerp you to that object and grind along it at the angle you approached it.
• to properly explain that pressing shift/ctrl/right click uses a Slick Cig (speed boost cigarette) while Grounded and uses a Slick Sip (confidence boost beer - more air time/generous trick timers) while Airborne.
• to include dialogue explaining day/stage cycles, start of day quota requirements shops, slot machine mechanics etc.

The Feature List:

• The initial list of features we wanted was twice as long as it is in game, we cut a lot of things because it was a bit too raunchy for stream but we can put that list together on Trello if there is enough interest in the game so don't forget to add to your collection!

P.S.

On First release we noticed that

• Game Over keeps the mouse locked.
• Restarting/New Game doesn't reset cheddar amount, the day/stage, or baby mama expected amount.
• Clothes display correctly in the sewer and cubicle but not in transitions.

All these fixes will be applied in the next release but not for the BigMode Jam as this is the last release available during the BigMode Jam.
You can get past the refresh issue by restarting the game (Remember that you can press any key to skip the intro).